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AEW star Jeff Hardy was arrested on Monday morning after driving drunk on a Florida highway and was later hit with three charges, including driving on a canceled/suspended/revoked license and driving while under the influence, marking the third time he’s been given a DUI in the last three years. On Tuesday, AEW president Tony Khan […]

It’s here; it’s finally here: NJPW has announced the participants in the 2022 G1 Climax, and it features a certain member of the AEW roster that should get fans hyped for the tournament indeed. No, it’s not Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, or any member of The Elite – much to the chagrin of fans the […]

The latest airing of AEW Dark: Elevation started off strong with “The Native Beast” versus the “Non-Binary Nightmare.” That’s right, Max the Impaler has made their AEW debut. Max has been working the indies since 2018 and most notably debuted in Ring of Honor in September of 2021, where they performed until the promotion’s hiatus […]

Former WWE Divas champion Paige made a shocking announcement on Friday when she revealed she would leave WWE on July 7th. In her announcement, the 29-year-old star mentioned her departure from WWE wasn’t an end to her in-ring career. And now, she has commented on the possibility of joining AEW. According to Ringside News, Paige […]

Booker T has never been afraid to give his opinion on the news that goes on in pro wrestling. Recently, the WWE legend turned his attention to AEW and more specifically to Jade Cargill. Recently, Booker T was on the Reality of Wrestling podcast where he was asked about AEW star Jade Cargill. The WWE […]

AEW star Adam Cole loves The Bullet Club. Though he was only a member of The Club for a short while, as he signed with WWE early in the talent-share agreement between Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Cole has remained fiercely loyal to the faction since leaving NXT for AEW in 2021, […]

While AEW and NJPW’s joint event Forbidden Door has already announced and teased a multitude of dream matches, it would appear that fans will have to take at least a couple of names off of their fantasy bookings. After an early morning tweet from Andrade El Idolo, seemingly sarcastically thanking Lucha promotions CMLL and AAA […]

Sometimes in wrestling, what happens outside of the ring can affect the storylines told within it. Performers get injured, flights get canceled, and worldwide pandemics make it impossible for champions to step foot in the country a promotion calls home. This, unfortunately, is the situation AEW finds itself in heading into Wednesday’s edition of Dynamite, […]

On Monday morning, AEW star Jeff Hardy was pulled over in the 12 o’clock hour by Daytona, Florida police and subsequently arrested for three charges, including driving on a canceled/suspended/revoked license and driving while under the influence, marking his third such offensive over the last three years. Jeff Hardy was arrested last night. I'm always […]

Once upon a time, the man AEW fans would eventually know as Malakai Black looked like one of the brightest stars in the WWE developmental system. He had an incredible look, a jaw-dropping presentation featuring thousands of candles on an LED wall, and the musical stylings of Code Orange, who created one of the greatest original […]

A lot has been happening lately in the title picture of AEW. Newly christened World Champion CM Punk’s injuries have caused an impromptu Interim World Title to be christened, a process that will be spilling into Forbidden Door as Jon Moxley will be facing off against Hiroshi Tanahashi for the belt. The TNT Championship fairly […]

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Cody Rhodes was a full-time wrestler and EVP of AEW. It all started well enough, with Rhodes and his Elite faction positioned as the babyface foils to Chris Jericho’s villainous Inner Circle but after a self-imposed stipulation that would prevent the well-traveled hero from ever challenging […]

As the road towards Forbidden Door, the cross-promotional Pay-Per-View between AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, inches closer and closer with each passing day, wrestlers in both promotions are scrambling to find opponents for what should be one of the most loaded cards in recent memory. Jon Moxley has a bout set with Hiroshi Tanahashi, […]

Jon Moxley is one match away from becoming the first two-time World Champion in AEW history. Sure, there have been multiple-time champions in the promotion before, with both Kenny Omega and “Hangman” Adam Page having both won the Tag Team Championship and the World Championship, and the trio of Cody Rhodes, Sammy Guevara, and Scorpio […]

Heading into Forbidden Door, there were two marquee matches that rose above the rest: Jon Moxley versus Hiroshi Tanahashi – which has now been confirmed – and “Hangman” Adam Page versus Kazuchika Okada versus maybe Adam Cole for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. The latter match, initially proposed by Page following his win over David […]

Paige VanZant is a lot of things; she’s a model, a wrestler for AEW, a fighter for UFC/Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, a former participant on Dancing with the Stars, and a member of American Top Team. Well, VanZant can now add “tech innovator” to her long list of accolades, as she just dropped a first-of-its-kind […]

While his Best Friend Trent Beretta continues to feud with Will Ospreay, Chuck Taylor has been notably absent from AEW television. Since securing a win over The WorkHorseman on AEW Dark Elevation back in March, Beretta has bounced around the AEW roster in a variety of different performance configurations, from losing to Samoa Joe for […]

One of the best things about AEW is that most of their wrestlers can feely wrestle in other promotions without many restrictions. FTR can take on Brian Pillman Jr. and Brock Anderson with Bret Hart in their corner despite the latter team not tagging together in AEW, Brody King can continue to work NJPW Strong […]

In case you somehow haven’t heard, the biggest show of the summer, Forbidden Door, is scheduled for later this month, with the biggest stars in AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling set to face off in all sorts of dream matches. We’ll probably see “Hangman” Adam Page and Adam Cole will be going against Kazuchika […]

If there’s one thing the AEW tag team partnership of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, known professionally as FTR, love more than anything else, it’s wrestling history. Their gimmick back in NXT/WWE, at least before Vince McMahon tried to rebrand them as literal clowns, was “no flips, just hits,” and their throwback style of wrestling […]

When Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland formed an impromptu tag team on Rampage, it made more than a few AEW fans scratch their heads. Since being signed away from WWE after their “budget cut”-influenced releases, Lee and Strickland have floated around the mid-card in AEW during the second quarter of 2022, securing wins matches against […]

The Forbidden Door is opening once again. After years of one-offs and short stints of visiting wrestlers, AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling will have their joint, very appropriately-named June Pay-Per-View in Chicago. Despite a string of injuries on AEW’s side of the card, this event should have plenty of dream matches and opportunities to […]

Theoretically, Hook and Danhausen are on opposite ends of the AEW spectrum. One is a second-generation wrestler who played lacrosse at the D-1 level in college and, after months of training as a contracted talent, made his in-ring debut positioned as an unbeatable star right from the jump. Hook was given a near-weekly segment on […]

After literal days of anticipation, Will Ospreay and his United Empire stablemates, Aussie Open, officially made their debut in a fully sanctioned wrestling match on AEW television. That’s right, after charging the ring to attack the unlikely trio of Trent Beretta and FTR on Wednesday’s edition of Dynamite, Rampage viewers were treated to an awesome […]

After weeks of anticipation, AEW has officially unleashed Satnam Singh onto the wrestling world in a real-life wrestling match. Taking the ring in a tag team match with Jay Lethal versus enhancement talent Davey Vega and Matt Fitchett, Singh turned in a classic big man performance that drew on all-time legends like Andre the Giant, […]

The warpath of Eddie Kingston continues and has claimed another victim, Jericho Appreciation Society’s Jake Hager, on AEW Rampage. After causing “The Mad King” to be eliminated at Dynamite’s Interim Title Battle Royal, Kingston demanded that he fight Hager on Rampage to get his receipt. And just like that, the contract was signed, and while […]

When 2point0 arrived in AEW, it was met with very little fanfare. Known nationally as Ever-Rise during their time in NXT, where they most notably feuded – albeit sort of one-way – with Hit Row, the French Canadian tag team came made their way to All Elite Wrestling thanks to a call between Chris Jericho […]

Welp, it’s officially official: Will Ospreay has arrived in AEW. That’s right, after wrestling around the United States for much of the last year, delivering big-time bouts at Warrior Wrestling, West Coast Pro, and NJPW Strong, Ospreay has finally made his way to All Elite Wrestling, where a whole new world of matches suddenly come […]

Every now and again, a wrestler captures the hearts and attention of fans watching AEW Dark or AEW Dark Elevation either at home or in the arena in a very special way. They get cheered, the crowd backs them instead of their typically contracted foes, and with every near-fall, the hopes of a shock-the-world underdog […]

As the biggest Pay-Per-View of the summer, Forbidden Door, rapidly approaches, fans of AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling are frantically fantasy booking their dream matches. Could we finally see FTR versus Aussie Open? Or how about Will Ospreay wrestle someone like Miro, Wardlow, or Orange Cassidy? Will G.OD. make their AEW debut versus the […]

Konosuke Takeshita is the new kid on the block at AEW. After initially appearing in the company in 2021, primarily working with fellow DDT alum Kenny Omega, Takeshita is now in the states for a long excursion and should be a mainstay of Dynamite, Rampage, Dark, and Elevation programming for the rest of the year. […]

If you’re mostly just a fan of mainstream American professional wrestling, you probably haven’t heard of AEW‘s newest addition, Rush. When Andrade El Idolo and his assistant Jose sat around a table waiting for another member to join their meeting in a pre-taped segment on Double or Nothing, and a large man in a white […]

And just like that, fans of AEW finally know who will represent the promotion at Forbidden Door in the main event bout to decide the promotion’s Interim World Championship: Jon Moxley. Yes, as if there was ever any doubt, the former World Champion, who won the belt against Chris Jerico in February of 2020 at […]

After turning in a fantastic win over David Finlay, Adam Page was handed a microphone to address his adoring AEW fans. “Hanger,” in his first in-ring appearance since losing the AEW World Championship, addressed the elephant in the room, his chances of earning a rematch, and the fact that there is, in fact, more than […]

WWE superstar Bayley has hinted at her long-awaited return. Bayley took to Twitter to post a photo of her lacing up her boots, seemingly hinting that she will be putting her wrestling boots back on very soon for the WWE. pic.twitter.com/u4J2EfdtYB — Bayley (@itsBayleyWWE) June 8, 2022 The former RAW and SmackDown Women’s Champion has […]

When Trent Beretta took the ring at AEW Dynamite to lament his inability to celebrate Best Friends Day and to ask for another shot at the ROH Tag Team Championship, fans had to know it was just a matter of time before something was going to happen. First, it was the arrival of FTR, who […]

In the leadup to a seemingly inconsequential Dynamite match between Buddy Matthews and Pac, Tony Schiavone made an announcement few fans saw coming: AEW is debuting another new championship. Alright, cool, the promotion has been hinting at a trios title for years now; it’s good to see that it will finally be introduced. … except […]

Well, the AEW Interim World Championship Battle Royal has concluded, and we know who will be facing off against Jon Moxley in the main event of Dynamite. After a fun yet chaotic match, complete with Swerve Strickland’s betrayal of Keith Lee, the admittedly disappointing Joker entrant reveal of Andrade El Idolo, and the possibly more […]

After nearly winning the AEW tag team championship at Double or Nothing at the end of May, there already appears to be tension between Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee, the duo who just christened themselves “Swerve in our Glory” on the previous edition week’s Dynamite. Taking part in the Battle Royal for the interim AEW […]